- Ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) surprised everyone by releasing Indian batsman Shreyas Iyer. Last season, under his leadership, the team was able to win the trophy after a decade.
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Before the IPL 2025 mega auction, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has surprised everyone by releasing Indian batsman Shreyas Iyer. Last season, under his leadership, the team was able to win the trophy after a decade. KKR won the title by maintaining its dominance throughout the season. Despite this performance, the Shahrukh Khan-owned team did not retain Shreyas Iyer for IPL 2025. In such a situation, Kolkata is now looking for its new captain. There is news that the franchise can hand over this responsibility to the young player.
KKR will make this player the captain!
Every day some new news is coming out about the new version of the Indian Premier League i.e. IPL 2025. At the same time, ever since Kolkata Knight Riders released Shreyas Iyer, there is speculation about the new captain of the team. It is reported that this team (KKR), which won the IPL 2024 title, can appoint a young Indian batsman as captain. If reports are to be believed, Bollywood king Shahrukh Khan’s team may decide to make Rinku Singh the captain.
Great performance for the team
Rinku Singh, who hit five back-to-back sixes in five balls against Gujarat Titans in IPL 2023, has performed brilliantly for Kolkata Knight Riders. As a finisher, he has played an important role in helping the team win many matches. He was also impressive in the previous edition. In such a situation, KKR may turn to Rinku Singh for captaincy for IPL 2025. Let us tell you that Kolkata has retained him for Rs 13 crore for the next season. Apart from him, the team also retained Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakraborty and Ramandeep Singh.
He won everyone’s heart with his explosive batting
It is worth noting that Rinku Singh has been a part of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) for a long time. In the year 2018, the franchise included him in their camp by paying Rs 80 lakh. However, the young batsman was released before the IPL 2022 mega auction. After this, Kolkata bought him again by spending 55 lakhs in the auction. Rinku Singh has proved himself to be a great finisher with his explosive batting in the lower order. He has also been excellent in T20 Internationals. He has scored 499 runs in 21 innings of 28 T20I matches, in which his average is around 50.